Tuesday, January 30, 2007

The Russian Bear: No fags or fucking liberals

The Russian Bear is starting to look like a violent Mafia capitalist oligarchic pimp who uses its oil and gas the way a crack dealer does, crossed with a homophobic fascist. Not exactly the vodka drunk funny dancing bear we had hoped it had become.

Moscow bans 'satanic' gay paradeMoscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov has said he will never allow a gay rights parade in the Russian capital.Speaking to reporters, Mr Luzhkov described such events as "satanic". Moscow banned a gay march in 2006, citing the threat of violence. People who ignored the ban were beaten up by counter-demonstrators and arrested. Gay activists say the ban breaches their fundamental human rights. They say they intend to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights. "Last year, Moscow came under unprecedented pressure to sanction the gay parade, which cannot be called anything other than satanic," Mr Luzhkov said.

Russia's party barred from pollsOne of Russia's leading liberal political parties, Yabloko, has been banned from local elections in the second biggest city, St Petersburg.The city's electoral commission said too many signatures supporting the party's candidates had been invalid. Yabloko said the commission's decision was an attempt to muzzle the voice of the opposition to the pro-Kremlin municipal council. It said it would appeal. The elections are due to be held on 11 March.

Precisely...Russia never has played by the same rules as the 'enlightened' west...ralk to even the vaerage Russian in NZ, who generally will have little time for Putin, and their attitude will likely suggest that things in Russia are unlikely to change anytime soon...

Mind you they don't generally like Jews either...something that will no doubt probably meet with the approval of more than a few readers of this blog :(